Jason Ward is a writer and puzzle creator. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Little White Lies, Dazed, Curzon, The Quietus and IdeasMag and he is the associate editor of Oh Comely magazine. He is also the author of the newly published book Alice’s Puzzles: Through the Looking Glass. Fortunately for him, he is not related to James Ward. He is on Twitter @draw_nosaj.

TOM JACKSON.

Tom Jackson runs the Postcards from the Past Twitter account which tweets “fragments of life” – pictures of old postcards along with their accompanying messages. You can follow the account @PastPostcard.

Nicholas Tufnell is a London based writer and producer. His work has appeared on Bloomburg, the Guardian, BBC News and Wired. He is on Twitter @NicholasTufnell.

CATHERINE O’FLYNN.

Catherine O’Flynn is the author of three novels. Her debut, What Was Lost, won the 2008 Costa First Novel Award. She reviews books sometimes for The Guardian and turns up sporadically on Radio 4’s Saturday Review. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Granta, The New York Times, The Independent and on BBC Radio. Catherine has been described as ‘the JG Ballard of Birmingham…finding poetry and meaning where others see merely boredom and dereliction”. She lives amidst that boredom and dereliction with her husband and two daughters. She is on Twitter @CatherineQanik.

Peter Fletcher is a Birmingham-based biostatistician. Since July 2007, he has kept a record of every time that he has sneezed. He records the time, the date, where he was, what he was doing and a measure of strength (mild, moderate, moderate to stong, strong and very strong). You can read the details of each sneeze here. My favourite is sneeze number forty-two. He is on Twitter @joyfeed.

Alby Reid is a physicist and teacher. He writes the Mr Reid blog, about “stuff that interests him”, which judging from the tag cloud on his blog mainly seems to be nuclear weapons and space. He is on Twitter @alby.

Edward Long is a London-based poet whose work centres around the past, geography, Scandinavia, and issues of sexuality and identity. In June, he will be poet-in-residence at Branch Hill Allotments in Hampstead as part of the Open Squares weekend and is on Twitter as @eddus.

Dawn Foster is a writer on politics, social affairs and economics for The Guardian, London Review of Books, Independent and Times Literary Supplement, and is a regular political commentator for Sky News, Channel 4 News, and BBC Newsnight. Her first book, Lean Out, is on feminism, austerity and corporate culture. Follow her on Twitter @dawnhfoster.